carol: we are here with the editor of "bloomberg businessweek," ellen pollock. you write about a capital mystery. meaning capital expenditure. ellen: we look at why companies are investing last in software tools, the percentage of total investment on an annual basis is down. we treated as a sherlock holmes mystery, complete with an illustration of sherlock holmes and we look at why that may be. people say corporate taxes are too high. it is a variety of reasons. it has led to stagnating wages, stagnating standards of living, productivity down. economists are trying to figure out why that is. there is the possibility that companies are returning money to investors rather than buying equipment. it is a problem. it has added up to slow growth. david: a story involving online defamation, dune lawrence writing about how she was defamed online. ellen: this is a story that took courage to write. dune lawrence wrote a story about how she went online one day and got to a website that labeled her as racist, dumb, bloated on fried chicken. it went on and on. it went back to

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i am back with ellen pollock. something that caught my attention is bill collectors in russia. is is really scary. ellen: it is really scary. russia is in a devastating recession. mostly because of the price of oil dropping so dramatically. that means that people are in tremendous consumer debt. something like 1.2 trillion rubles, which is a lot of debt. but, even if you are just a little bit in debt, you might find yourself coming up against these very scary bill collectors. you can come out of your house and find on your car, debtor written in huge graffiti with your apartment number. they'll write on your apartment walls, and they have even thrown bombs and hurt children. carol: destroying baby carriages. ellen: it is crazy. it is really, really rough. and some of these cases, there have been prosecution, but a lot of them have not. so does ugly to go on for a while. carol: interesting, think you so much. coming up, the software that may donald trump's run for the white house possible. and the many donald trump like politicians in power across europe. also a diverse attorney

." ♪ let's meet the editor, ellen pollock, the editor of "bloomberg businessweek."he joins us now. the first piece in your global economic session is on brussels. obviously, a lot of attention there. this is home to the european union's headquarters. we know that because one of the bombings took place at a metro station right outside of them. this is a city with a lot of internal tension. ellen: our stories sort of takes a step back from the tragic events of the last week, looking at the city as sort of a tale of two cities, where you have the european union and all of the people who work there. david: bureaucrats. ellen: bureaucrats, yes. then you look at the people who live in some of the very poor neighborhoods, including some neighborhoods that are heavily muslim, where there is high unemployment and where there is this huge economic divide. and inequality. one of the things we deal with is how brussels is run in such a way that it has six police forces and has 19 municipalities within it. and just how hard it is, to govern and meld these communities together. d

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." ♪ let's meet the editor, ellen pollock, the editor of "bloomberg businessweek."he joins us now. the first piece in your global on brussels.ion is obviously a lot of attention there. this is home to the european union's headquarters. we know that because one of the bombings took place at a metro station right outside of them. this is a city with a lot of internal tension. ellen: our stories sort of takes a step back from the tragic events of the last week, looking at the city as sort of a tale of two cities, where you have the european union and all of the people who work there. david: bureaucrats. ellen: bureaucrats, yes. then you look at the people who live in some of the very poor neighborhoods, including some neighborhoods that are heavily muslim where there is high , unemployment and where there is this huge economic divide. and inequality. one of the things we deal with is how brussels is run in such a way that it has six police forces and has 19 municipalities within it. and just how hard it is to , govern and meld these communities together. david: illustr

." ♪ michael: let's meet the editor, ellen pollock, the editor of "bloomberg businessweek."he joins us now. the first piece in your global economic session is on brussels. obviously, a lot of attention there. this is home to the european union's headquarters. we know that because one of the bombings took place at a metro station right outside of them. this is a city with a lot of internal tension. ellen: our stories sort of takes a step back from the tragic events of the last week, looking at the city as sort of a tale of two cities, where you have the european union and all of the people who work there. david: bureaucrats. ellen: bureaucrats, yes. then you look at the people who live in some of the very poor neighborhoods, including some neighborhoods that are heavily muslim, where there is high unemployment and where there is this huge economic divide. and inequality. one of the things we deal with is how brussels is run in such a way that it has six police forces and has 19 municipalities within it. and just how hard it is, to govern and meld these communities together. d

. ♪ carol: we are here with the editor of "bloomberg businessweek," ellen pollock. onomic section, you write about a capital mystery. meaning capital expenditure. ellen: we look at why companies are investing less in software tools, the percentage of total investment on an ann